"ETH Proved False" Claim Spreads as Researchers Quote-Tweet MIT CSAIL
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-27
Scott Armstrong's announcement that the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) is false is spreading: mcarbin quote-tweeted MIT CSAIL's question about which scientific breakthrough you'd time-travel to see, asserting "ETH proved false!" — implying this could be a landmark theoretical result. The purported proof has not yet been peer-reviewed.
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